Pop goes the culture

Maybe that makes me a lowbrow -- I think Samaras is the better painter (disparaged these days), and her high-culture references are easily identifiable, while her low-culture references are comfortable late-boomer nostalgia (none of Bird's tacky Mr. T, thank you). And of course Samaras makes herself accessible by playing the sex card, both in het T&A form and as fashionably homoerotic K/S.